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  1. Von Ribbentrop interrogated at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 79) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 2, 1946. LSs, Dr. Alfred Seidl, Hess's lawyer, questions Joachim von Ribbentrop on details of the Russian-German treaty. CUs, von Ribbentrop responds. MSs, Justices Lawrence, Birkett, and Biddle. MSs, Chief Justice Lawrence questions von Ribbentrop. LSs, MSs, CUs, Chief British Prosecutor Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe questions von Ribbentrop about Hitler's policy toward the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia and about a meeting he attended that described Hitler's desire to wipe Czechoslovakia from the map of the world. CUs, von Ribbentrop. LSs,...

  3. British prosecutor and map at Nuremberg Trial

    02:10:04 (Paris 419) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 5, 1945. MLSs, rear views only, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, Chief Prosecutor for Britain, speaking before the Tribunal. Cut-in animated map, "Violations of Treaties, Agreements, and Assurances." 02:12:24 (Paris 436) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 11, 1945. Rear views only, counsel for Fritz Sauckel, Dr. Robert Servatius, makes a plea before the Tribunal, requesting that the defending counsels be given copies of the evidence. Pan to Tribunal as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence requests the counsel to clear up so...

  4. 1936 Olympics: crowds; Hitler; races

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 10: Shows crowds in stands at the German Arena, Hitler, Goering and Goebbels among them; relay races are held; garlands of victory are placed on the brows of US, British, and Finnish contestants.

  5. Hadamar Murder Mills

    (LIB 5168 - LIB 5170) Hadamar Murder Mills, Hadamar, Germany, April 7, 1945. SEQ: German civilians dig up bodies from graves. War Crimes Investigation Team arrives and performs autopsies on bodies. INT, MCUs Dr. Adolf Wahlmann, Karl Willing, and Adolph Merkle who were in charge of the asylum are interrogated. Note: In this insane asylum at Hadamar, 35,000 Polish, Russian, and German political prisoners were slaughtered.

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- US Air Force flying bombers

    North American F86 breaking world speed record. Flying bomber. Air Force release.

  7. Milch interrogated by Jackson at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 43) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 12, 1946. HAS, Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson interrogating Erhard Milch about conferences and meetings with officials. Milch speaks in German. Pan from Jackson to prisoners' dock, then from Jackson to Tribunal. MS, Goering, Hess, von Ribbentrop, and Keitel. Pan to MCU of Justices Francis Biddle and John Parker. Pan to Justices Parker, Henri de Vabre, and Robert Falco. CU, British prosecutors at table. MS, four Russian prosecutors at table. MS, Keitel, Raeder, Schirach, Sauckel, Kaltenbrunner, and Rosenberg. MS, defense counsel...

  8. Schwarzheide collection

    Contains a memoir, entitled "Das Auβenlager Schwarzheide des KZ Sachsenhausen," written by Jacov Tsur and Richard Svoboda, containing information about the auxiliary camp, Schwarzheide, a part of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Also contains papers regarding the memorial for the Jews of Cĕská Lipa., Czech Republic; a list of those killed in Schwardzheide, compiled by the Association of Former Prisoners of the Concentration Camp Schwarzheide, an English translation of the memoir; and other documents regarding Cĕská Lipa., Czech Republic, and the Schwarzheide concentration camp. Als...

  9. German surrender; crime investigation

    02:10:05 (LIB 6209) German Surrender, Schwerin, Germany, May 2, 1945. Groups of German soldiers and civilians moving about streets after their surrender. MSs, long column of German horse-drawn vehicles moving past soldiers of the 121st Regt, 8th Div. SEQ: German soldiers getting off German operated freight train to give themselves up. MSs, large mass of German prisoners assembling in POW cage. CUs, German women talking to prisoners. 02:15:42 (LIB 6210) Atrocity Crime Investigation, Recklinghouser, Germany, May 2, 1945. SEQ: Officer and soldier questioning German civilians accused of war cri...

  10. Documentary re: the Slovak State (part 2)

    Shop on Obchodna Street, with a gardist flag and a swastika, sign saying "non-Jewish business." Hitler Youth parade. Flags in the street. Women and children going to church in a village, a child in the arms of a German soldier. Guarded entrance to the building of the Central Customs Office in Bratislava. Poster: Anti-Bolshevik exposition. Guarded Telegraph Office. 00:21:00 Broken shop window of Samuel Eckstein's candy shop in Bratislava. Bridge from Petrzalka, Bratislava. Building with broken windows, Primate's Square, palace with flags. Military column, guarded building, parade of civilian...

  11. Overview of Germany, the German character, and lust for conquest

    US propaganda film about "The German personality" and its national psyche and history. Reel 1 shows panoramic views of the German countryside, its people, music, schools, offices, and factories ('a modern, educated, musical, industrious nation'); dead and living victims of Nazi concentration camps; crematoria, gas chambers, victims' clothing, and articles made of human skin; and victims of Nazi atrocities in Rome, Lublin, Belgium, and Malmedy. Describes the lack of democracy in medieval Germanic states through World Wars I and II focusing on an ideal German soldier named Karl Schmidt. Shows...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- French youth organization training; crowds support Petain

    811 K (04:40:13): July-August 1940 The Ministry of Family and Youth. LS, Minister Jean Ybarnegaray with his chief collaborators. From left to right: ex-Davis Cup player and Wimbledon champion Jean-Robert Borotra, Commissioner for Physical Education and Sports; Gen. d'Harcourt, General Secretary of the Ministry; Minister Jean Ybarnegaray; Serge Huard; Cortot. CU, Borotra and Ybarnegaray. CU, looking at the plans of a stadium. 04:41:05 The "Compagnons de France," the new French Youth organization, train the future leaders of their organization in a camp at Randan, near Vichy (Puy-le-Dome). LS...

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Fundraising dinner for Polish Jewry; map

    09:24:09 477 D: "Meeting of Polish Jews in NY" at a round table, formal dinner, reportedly on December 1, 1931. Palm tree in BG. Benjamin Winter, President of the Federation of Polish Jews in America, and President of the World Federation of Polish Jews: "Condition of Jews in Poland is one of the Great Tragedies"; "...constantly discriminated and propagandized...Jewish children denied proper education...help these people... our need is $1 million." Fundraising speech [Mute] 09:31:58 477 I: Boat in fog, mist [without sound] 09:33:17 477 N: Map of Poland. CU Russia.

  14. Visit to Ukraine by Soviet writer Marietta Shaginyan

    "Soviet Ukraine"- Release 43. Soviet writer, Marietta Shaginyan, biographer of Lenin, visits the Ukraine. Speech to Dykanka kolhoz youth (members of a collective farm group) in Armenian or Russian (not certain of language of speech as this story is accompanied by voiceover narration in Ukrainian, and the original sound of the speech is not heard, and was perhaps never recorded). Translation of Ukrainian narration: Narration about the writer: Youth from Dykanka kolgosp [Ukrainian translation of 'kolhoz'] in the Poltava Region welcome the honored writer Marietta Shaginyan. The writer took und...

  15. Soviet Lviv, Ukraine

    Lvov, 1929-1939 (Polish Production). An intertitle reads, "Fragment from a parade: presentations: a) Municipal Guard of old Lwow, b) Riflemen's* Company." Polish King. Procession of the King through the city streets; he is proceeded by a band and honor guard (to whom the intertitle refers) in old fashioned dress. The King rides in an elaborate horse drawn carriage, waves to bystanders, large crowds of well-dressed civilians line the streets, they smile, wave and clap for the King. VS, landmarks, Jesuit monastery, monument to Mickiewicz. *The Polish word is strzelec, which is a musketeer.

  16. Reich Ministry for Food Supply and Agriculture Reichsministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (R 14)

    Contains records relating to the Reichsministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft activities, 1933-1945.

  17. Ida Szczygiel Yasterbelski Boisson memoir

    Contains a memoir, seven pages, about Ida Szczygiel Yasterbelski Boisson's experiences surviving in France with the aid of false identification papers.

  18. Goering testifies; Luxembourg occupation discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    02:09:59 (Munich 53) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany. 03/18/1946 MLSs, defense attorney asks Hermann Goering, "What orders had you given to take care of property found in occupied countries?" Goering says that all Army commanders received their orders directly from him concerning what was to be done with property found in occupied countries. Dr. Horn, counsel for Ribbentrop, asks Goering whether Hitler concerned himself with the details of foreign policy. 03/18/1946 LS, rear view, Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson (US) interrogates Goering. Goering expounds on the Fuehrerprinzip. Jac...

  20. War Crimes Trials: Buchenwald

    (Munich 541) Buchenwald Trial, Dachau, Germany, April 12, 1947. Spectators enter courtroom. LS, attorneys are administered oath by the Military Tribunal. At 16:20:42 U.S. Army Major Carl Everett Whitney, Jr hands papers to the tribunal and begins speaking. Major Whitney was assigned as attorney for the defense. Pan, prisoners in the dock, including Ilse Koch at 16:22:01. Scenes of the trial. LS, prisoners pleading to the indictment. One defendant hides his face with a card.